And sharp and dreadful rocks stand on her lee. A soul that hath no compass, sees no star?- There lies the port. Steer onward, wise and bold, C.ALL. COUNT DE WERDINSKY has communicated to the Mining Journal a discovery which he believes he has made, by which a convenient, inexpensive, and highly effective motive power can be obtained from xyloidine, or gun-cotton. He crowns this discovery by another, which he declares he made in the course of experiments for rendering the first efficacious— nothing less than a miraculous principle by which rapid locomotion is obtained without any sort of propulsion. This is his account. "I have been engaged in constructing an engine and locomotive, to be worked on the common roads by xyloidine, on the following plan. Smali quantities of xyloidine, are exploded successively into a copper recipient of a spheroidal form of 13 inches diameter, and inch strong in metal. Each separate explosion is adequate to produce, by means of double cylinders, a complete revolution of the crank. The object of the copper recipient is merely to allow the intense gases thrown into it room enough to expand, and thus to change their percussive intensity into a more gentle dynamic power, without in any way losing any of the quantity of that power. I can, therefore, let out from that copper recipient as much of the gases, through a stop-cock, as would produce a pressure of from 30 to 60, or 120 pounds upon the square inch of the piston moreover, by the very heat accumulated in the metal of the recipient, the gases are kept up to their original strength; so that, the longer the engine continues to work the greater the comparative economy of xyloidine, on account of the heat of the recipient and of the machinery, which serve to keep up great expansion, and consequently great power in the gases. My experiments with a steam-engine of about 2 horse power, on the above principle, answered admirably; but while these experiments were going on I made a further discovery, and this last one is verging almost on a miracle. The most prominent features of my last discovery are-that the propulsion of carriages on railroads, and on common roads, will be now effected without engines, steam, fire, water, magnetism, air, or animal power, and propelling of ships without either of the above means, sails, or paddles, or any propellers whatever." Dr. LAYARD, the explorer of the ruins of Nineveh, has been appointed a paid attaché to the British Embassy at the Sublime Porte. It is stated self (doubtless through the interest her royal conby the Literary Gazette that "it is her majesty hersort takes in every concern of literature, science, and the arts) to whom Dr. Layard is indebted for his late promotion." The trustees of the British Museum have voted Dr. Layard the sum of 3,0007., divided into two equal moieties, to be appropriated by him to excavations on and about the site of Nineveh in this and the ensuing year. "The grant proposed was double this amount, but it was cut down by government." ORDER is a means, not an end; and it is not even a positive or active means; it is only auxiliary to the true originative energies of a people-their strong affections, developed arts, and advanced opinions. It is a truism to say that no nation was ever stationary: but not to be so, or to retrograde, a nation must have strong affections, in order that the influential classes who have attained their own comfort may desire that of others; developed arts, that they may know the transition from good to better; and advanced opinions, that their purpose may keep ahead of their energies.-Spectator. A LARGE clock, showing the time upon two faces, and striking the hours and quarters, has recently been placed in a tower built for the purpose in the arsenal at Constantinople. This clock was made by Mr. Vulliamy, of Pall Mall; and is the first public clock that has ever been put up in a country professing the Moslem faith. ON recently opening the burial-vault of the Chaplin family at Blankney in Lincolnshire, it was ascertained that a large gray bat, which had been found within the place on several occasions when the vault was opened, was still an inhabitant. It is calculated that the bat has lived in the tomb for thirty-three years. (sister to Sir Charles Tempest, bart., of Broughton Hall, in the county of York,) has been appointed overseer of the poor for the parish of Ackworth, together with John Hagues, cow-leech, also of the parish of Ackworth. The appointment was made at Wentbridge on the 26th ultimo, and is endorsed by "two of her majesty's justices of the peace.". MISS TEMPEST of the Grange, near Ackworth, Doncaster Chronicle. RE-VACCINATION.-1st. Every individual is susceptible of vaccination; 2d. Re-vaccination is not necessary before puberty; 3d. The system undergoes a change at puberty, and re-vaccination is then necessary; 4th. Vaccination is a sure preventive of small-pox; 5th. Re-vaccination is a sure preventive of varioloid; 6th. The third vaccination is inert; 7th. The system is susceptible of varioloid after puberty, whenever the individual is exposed to small-pox, without re-vaccination; 8th. Re-vaccination is not necessary if the first operation was performed since puberty; 9th. Those who disregard vaccination are always liable to small-pox, whenever exposed to the influence of that dreadful disease; 10th. If every individual were vaccinated before puberty, and re-vaccinated at that revolution of the system, there would be no such disease existing as small-pox.-Substance of a paper in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. THE EXPELLED LACEWORKERS OF CALAIS. southerly latitude the vessel attained. There was no case of serious illness during the greater part of It will be remembered that at the outbreak of the the passage, and 256 souls have arrived in excellent Revolution in France, February, 1848, a large health, in a remarkably clean and well-commanded number of English operatives at Calais, Rouen, ship, manned by a fine crew. During the passage and other places were expelled from the country Mr. Spencer, the surgeon-superintendent, read under circumstances of great injustice and indignity. At Calais, where about a thousand persons, chiefly ted. We have seen in the hands of the refugee prayers every Sabbath, when the weather permitfrom Nottingham, had been for some years settled in connection with the lace trade, the cry of à bas emigrants some of the certificates granted by emles Anglais was particularly violent, and personal ployers and municipal officers in France, and they injury was only averted by the timely interference speak well for the character of the people, who, we of the English consul. Unwilling to return to Eng-treatment of the French for a hearty welcome in a hope, will find they have exchanged the inhospitable land, where their profession was overcrowded, the British colony. Theirs is an instance calling for of the colonists, and we shall much mistake if the especial sympathy and spirited exertion on behalf newly-arrived do not in their case confirm the assurance, that any honest men and women who venture to South Australia with their offspring will be likely to find the right hand of fellowship extended towards them in a land of plenty." Other detachments of the Anglo-French laceworkers have, we believe, gone to Port Philip and Sydney.-Chambers. unfortunate laceworkers sent a memorial to Lord Palmerston, desiring to obtain passages to one of the English colonies, and preferring, if a choice were permitted, to go to South Australia. In three days an answer was returned by his lordship, and a government commissioner arrived to make the requisite inquiries. He was immediately succeeded by Mr. Cooper, a gentleman from the office of her majesty's Land and Emigration Commissioners, who instituted diligent scrutiny into the characters and circumstances of the memorialists, and then arranged for their passage to England, preparatory to emigration for these colonies. On their arvival in London, they learned that a benevolent committee was sitting daily at the Mansion-House, under the auspices of Lord Ashley, and engaged in getting up a generous subscription, to which the town of Nottingham contributed from 300l. to 4007. for the relief of those who were hourly compelled to return to England from the French territory. The objections of the commissioners to send lacemakers and their families to a young colony like South Australia were compromised by an allowance of 51. per head from the subscription fund, and an engagement to provide a good outfit. The details were then arranged, and the "Harpley" being appointed, a detachment of the emigrants embarked, and soon the poop of the ship, to use our informant's words, transformed into a haberdasher's shop," from which everything necessary was gratuitously and unsparingly supplied to those who were in need; Mr. Cooper being charged with Lord Ashley's princely commands to let the unfortunate want for nothing. Mr. Commissioner Wood visited them at Gravesend previous to their departure, and addressed to them an admirable speech, full of kind was" ness and encouragement, assuring them they were proceeding to a land where honesty and industry seldom failed to find their proper reward. SYMPATHIES. THE Angel of the Universe, forever stands he there prayer; His altar is the eternal sun, his light its flames of gold, Down, down, throughout the infinite, they're fall- coral beads from praying hands the planet Thus for unnumbered ages on their diamond string The circling planet rosary from Uranus to the sun. Pealing down the deep abysses, soaring up the infinite, The grand cathedral chanting from the choir of the spheres, Within the star-roofed temple, though unheard by mortal ears; Never prayer from lip ascendeth, or from spirit never groan, But the flooding planet music bears it up before God's throne. Thus ages after ages will the cherub, earnest-eyed, Then he'll rise up from the altar within the glow- We notice all this for the purpose of mentioning that intelligence has been received in England of the safe arrival of the Harpley with the detachment of emigrants on board. The vessel came to an anchorage at Adelaide on the 30th of August, having occupied the interval from the 12th of May on the voyage. Referring to the arrival of the Harpley, the South Australian "Register," of September 6, observes:-"The only instance of death among the adults in the course of the voyage was an aged and ailing man, (in his sixty-seventh year,) who was unwilling to be separated from his family, and to whom the commissioner humanely granted a free passage. He died in traversing the Bay of Biscay; But he leads the praying spirits up from each burnthe only instance of mortality besides being a del- ing world, icate infant of three months old. During the pas-Till before the throne in heaven his radiant wings sage the ship only sighted the Cape Verd Islands are furled. By his mighty pinions shaken, star falleth after star, And the wailing planet music of the choral band is hushed. and St. Paul's. The passengers, who were scarce- There he resteth calm in glory, his holy mission done, ly becalmed on the Line, suffered little from heat in For within the Golden City, Altar, Temple, needthe tropics, and as little from cold in the southern hemisphere, 39 degrees south being the most eth none. Dublin University Magazine. POETRY.-Song of the Speaker, 525.-Sympathies, 527. SHORT ARTICLES.-New Motive Power; Dr. Layard; Order; Clock in Constantinople: Bat in Vault; Lady Overseer of the Poor; Re-Vaccina PROSPECTUS. This work is conducted in the spirit of Littell's Museum of Foreign Literature, (which was favorably received by the public for twenty years,) but as it is twice as large, and appears so often, we not only give spirit and freshness to it by many things which were excluded by a month's delay, but while thus extending our scope and gathering a greater and more attractive variety, are able so to increase the solid and substantial part of our literary, historical, and political harvest, as fully to satisfy the wants of the American reader. 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One of the most MADAME D'ARBouville's VILLAGE DOCTOR." elegant, and almost one of the prettiest women in THE readers of Blackwood can hardly have forgot- Paris, Madame de Moncar was but moderately ten a charming French tale, of which an abridged attached to the country. Quitting the capital at translation appeared, under the title of "An Un- the end of June, to return thither early in Octopublished French Novel," in the number of the ber, she usually took with her some of the comMagazine for December, 1847. In the brief no- panions of her winter gayeties, and a few young tice prefixed to it, we mentioned the existence of a companion story by the same authoress, which had men, selected amongst her most assiduous partners. Madame de Moncar was married to a man obtained wider circulation than its fellow, through arbitrary transfer to the pages of a French periodi- much older than herself, who did not always procal; and which, on that account, although of more tect her by his presence. Without abusing the convenient length than the Histoire Hollandaise, we great liberty she enjoyed, she was gracefully abstained from reproducing. Having thus drawn coquettish, elegantly frivolous, pleased with triattention to one of the most pleasing tales we in fles with a compliment, an amiable word, an any language are acquainted with, we fully ex- hour's triumph-loving a ball for the pleasure of pected speedily to meet with it in an English version. Not having done so, our vivid recollection adorning herself, fond of admiration, and not sorry of the great merits of "Le Médecin du Village" to inspire love. When some grave old aunt vennow induces us to revoke our first decision-the tured a sage remonstrance—“ Mon Dieu!" she more readily that we have repeatedly been solicited to give the English public an opportunity of appreciating a tale unprocurable in the form in which it was originally printed, and which few persons in this country are likely to have read in the Revue des Deux Mondes. The exquisite delineation of the erring, but meekly penitent Annunciata, and of the long-suffering and enthusiastically pious Christine, may well inspire a wish to become acquainted with other productions of the same delicate and graceful pen. The simple story of the Village Doctor will not disappoint expectation. We ourselves, deeply sensible of the fascinations of the Countess d'Arbouville's style, consider it her happiest effort; and although we once hinted a doubt of the probability of its crowning incident, we forget to play the critic when under the influence of her touching pathos and delightful diction. In our present capacity of translators we feel but too strongly the impossibility of rendering the artless elegance of her style, which flows on, smooth, fresh, and sparkling, like a summer streamlet over golden sands. And, with all her apparent simplicity, Madame d'Arbouville is a cunning artist, playing with skilful hand on the chords of the heart, which vibrate at her lightest touch. The effects she produces are the more striking because seemingly unsought. But her merits will be better exhibited by this second specimen of her writings than by any praise we could lavish; and we therefore proceed, without further preamble, to the narrative of Eva Meredith's sorrows as given by her humble friend, One fine morning in September, the countess and her guests set out for the unknown chateau. intending to pass the day there. A cross road. reputed practicable, was to reduce the journey to twelve leagues. The cross road proved execrable; the travellers lost their way in the forest; a carriage broke down; in short, it was not till mid-day that the party, much fatigued, and but moderately gratified by the picturesque beauties of the scenery, reached the chateau of Burcy, whose aspect was scarcely such as to console them for the annoyances of the journey. It was a large sombre building with dingy walls. In its front a garden, then out of cultivation, descended from terrace to terrace; for the chateau, built upon the slope of a wooded hill, had no level ground in its vicinity. On all sides it was hemmed in by mounand had a dark and gloomy foliage that saddened tains, the trees upon which sprang up amidst rocks, the eyesight. Man's neglect added to the natural wild disorder of the scene. Madame de Moncar stood motionless and disconcerted upon the thresh-old of her newly-acquired mansion. "This is very unlike a party of pleasure," said she; "I could weep at sight of this dismal abode.. Nevertheless, here are noble trees, lofty rocks, a roaring cataract; doubtless, there is a certain beauty in all that; but it is of too grave an order for my humor," added she with a smile. "Let us go in and view the interior." The hungry guests, eager to see if the cook, who had been sent forward upon the previous day, drunk by all present. Suddenly all eyes were the carriage, sloped obliquely upwards. The hood of the little cabriolet was brought forward, concealing its contents, with the exception of two arms covered with the sleeves of a blue blouse, and of a whip which fluttered about the ears of the gray horse. "Mon Dieu!" exclaimed Madame de Moncar. I forgot to tell you I was obliged to invite the village doctor to our breakfast. The old man was formerly of some service to my uncle's family, and I have seen him once or twice. Be not alarmed at the addition to our party; he is very taciturn. After a few civil words we may forget his presence; besides, I do not suppose he will remain very long." as an advanced guard, had safely arrived, willingly assented. Having obtained the agreeable certainty that an abundant breakfast would soon be upon the table, they rambled through the chateau. The old-fashioned furniture with tattered cover- A small carriage of green wicker-work, with ings, the arm-chairs with three legs, the tottering great wheels, as high as the body of the vehicle, tables, the discordant sounds of a piano, which for passed before the windows, and stopped at the a good score of years had not felt a finger, afforded door. It was drawn by a gray horse, short and abundant food for jest and merriment. Gayety punchy, whose eyes seemed in danger from the returned. Instead of grumbling at the inconve- shafts, which, from their point of junction with niences of this uncomfortable mansion, it was agreed to laugh at everything. Moreover, for these young and idle persons, the expedition was a sort of event, an almost perilous campaign, whose originality appealed to the imagination. A fagot was lighted beneath the wide chimney of the drawing-room; but clouds of smoke were the result, and the company took refuge in the pleasure" grounds. The aspect of the gardens was strange enough; the stone-benches were covered with moss, the walls of the terraces, crumbling in many places, left space between their ill-joined stones for the growth of numerous wild plants, which sprung out erect and lofty, or trailed with flexible grace towards the earth. The walks were overgrown and obliterated by grass; the parterres, At this moment the dining-room door opened, reserved for garden flowers, were invaded by wild and Dr. Barnaby entered. He was a little old ones, which grow wherever the heavens afford a man, feeble, and insignificant-looking, of calm and drop of water and a ray of sun; the insipid bear- gentle countenance. His gray hairs were collected bine enveloped and stifled in its envious embrace into a cue, according to a bygone fashion; a dash the beauteous rose of Provence: the blackberry of powder whitened his temples, and extended to mingled its acrid fruits with the red clusters of his furrowed brow. He wore a black coat, and the currant-bush; ferns, wild mint, with its faint steel buckles to his breeches. Over one arm hung perfume, thistles with their thorny crowns, grew a riding-coat of puce-colored taffety. In the op beside a few forgotten lilies. When the company posite hand he carried his hat and a thick cane. entered the enclosure, numbers of the smaller ani- His whole appearance proved that he had taken mals, alarmed at the unaccustomed intrusion, unusual pains with his toilet; but his black stockdarted into the long grass, and the startled birds ings and coat were stained with mud, as if the flew chirping from branch to branch. Silence, for poor old man had fallen into a ditch. He paused many years the undisturbed tenant of this peaceful at the door, astonished at the presence of so many spot, fled at the sound of human voices and of joy-persons. For an instant, a tinge of embarrassment ous laughter. The solitude was appreciated by appeared upon his face; but, recovering himself, none-none grew pensive under its influence; it he silently saluted the company. The strange was recklessly broken and profaned. The conversation ran upon the gay evenings of the past season, and was interspersed with amiable allusions, expressive looks, covert compliments, with all the thousand nothings, in short, resorted to by persons desirous to please each other, but who have not yet acquired the right to be serious. The steward, after a long search for a breakfastbell along the dilapidated walls of the chateau, at last made up his mind to shout from the steps that the meal was ready—the half-smile with which he accompanied the announcement, proving that, like his betters, he resigned himself for one day to a deviation from his habits of etiquette and propriety. Soon a merry party surrounded the board. The gloom of the chateau, its desert site and uncheery aspect, were all forgotten; the conversation was general and well sustained; the health of the lady of the castle-the fairy whose presence converted the crazy old edifice into an enchanted palace, was manner of his entrance gave the guests a violent inclination to laugh, which they repressed more or less successfully. Madame de Moncar alone, in her character of mistress of the house, and incapable of failing in politeness, perfectly preserved her gravity. "Dear me, doctor! have you had an overturn?” was her first inquiry. Before replying, Dr. Barnaby glanced at all these young people in the midst of whom he found himself, and, simple and artless though his physiognomy was, he could not but guess the cause of their hilarity. He replied quietly: "I have not been overturned. A poor carter fell under the wheels of his vehicle; I was passing and I helped him up." And the doctor took possession of a chair left vacant for him at the table. Unfolding his napkin, he passed a corner through the buttonhole of his coat, and spread out the rest over his waistcoat and knees At these |